Category: Emmett till

The alleged teasing of white store clerk Carolyn Bryant by the 14 year-old African American Emmett Till led to his brutal murder at the hands of Bryants husband Roy and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, forcing the American public to grapple with the menace of violence in the Jim Crow South. According to court documents, Till,…

If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it’s for this white lie. (Brian Spellman) The US has employed the use of the death penalty ever since the nation declared independence, while the first recorded execution in the state of Alabama was in 1812. Since the beginning of the recession in the 1920s to…